The Amish Cook: After CO2 alarm sounds, family flees into darkness

6:04 PM,
Feb. 26, 2013

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Lovina Eicher
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Editor's Note: Lovina's church belongs to is more progressive when it comes to safety-oriented technology such as smoke detectors. When their home was built, local home inspectors required such detectors be installed. Some more conservative Amish groups, such as the Swartzentruber Amish, have opposed such devices.

We are having some snowy days this week, although there is not much of an accumulation. We have had quite a day already. Joe left for work around 3:30 a.m. I had turned off the light and was ready to go back to bed until 5 a.m. I heard an alarm go off in the basement, so I went to go out and ...